Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 125

Every spring a company of those who loved her, and looked upon her as their leader, meet at her grave to sing Christian hymns, place flowers upon the mound, and recall the beautiful life from which they learned how full of fruitfulness and blessing fifty years of Christian discipleship could be made.

Who acts: you, women, blessing · What happens: love, look, meet, sing, recall, learn · To what, where: desire, grave, Christian hymns, beautiful life

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, women, blessing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 spring	det
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meet	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 company	det
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spring	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 those	case
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 company	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 those	acl:relcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 loved	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 leader	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 leader	nmod:poss
17	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spring	punct
19	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 grave	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grave	nmod:poss
22	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meet	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sing	mark
24	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 meet	advcl
25	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hymns	amod
26	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flowers	punct
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flowers	compound
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hymns	conj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 mound	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mound	det
32	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flowers	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 recall	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 recall	cc
35	recall	recall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 meet	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 life	det
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 life	amod
38	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 recall	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 learned	obl
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 learned	nsubj
42	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 life	acl:relcl
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 full	advmod
44	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 learned	ccomp
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 fruitfulness	case
46	fruitfulness	fruitfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 full	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 made	cc
48	blessing	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 made	csubj
49	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 years	nummod
50	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 blessing	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 discipleship	case
52	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 discipleship	amod
53	discipleship	discipleship	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 years	nmod
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 made	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 made	aux:pass
56	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 full	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past		desire			who nsubj	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	look	past					upon desire; as women's leader	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme
3	meet	imperative	you not said here		desire's grave	spring		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	you not said here	Christian hymns and place flowers upon the mound				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
5	recall	infinitive	you not said here	the beautiful life				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	learn	past	women = woman		the beautiful life			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from which=Source
7	bless	gerund				year		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	make	could · passive	blessing					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 125

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 125